Method of constructing carts.



D. A. DUSENBERY.

METHOD OF CONSTRUCTI'NG CARTS.

Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

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B A .0 mf /we 7y APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 4. I918.

D. A. DUSENBERY.

METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING CARTS.

APPLICATlON FILED SEPT. 4. 191B.

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DAYTON A. DUSENBERY, OF IONIA, KANSAS.

METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING CARTS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented rlrpr. 22, 191%.

Original application filed December 31, 1917, Serial N 0. 209,669. Divided and this application filed Septemher 4, 1918.

To all whom it may com-cm:

Be it known that I, DAYTON A. DUSEN- BERY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tonia, in the county of Jewell and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Constructing Carts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hand carts of that general class shown and described in my copending application filed in the United States Patent Oflice on the 31st day of December 191'7, under Serial No. 209,669, and of which the present application is a division.

The object of the invention is to provide a novel method of cutting the sides, handles and cleats of the cart from a single strip of material, whereby the units constituting the body of the cart may be quickly formed and readily assembled without appreciable waste of material.

The method consists, generally stated, in forming spaced transverse incisions in the intermediate portion of a blank or strip of material, connecting said transverse incisions by a plurality of longitudinal incisions directed obliquely to the longitudinal plane of the blank to form the sides, handles and cleats, and subsequently detaching the units and assembling them to form the body of the cart.

Other and incidental objects will appear as the description proceeds. In the drawings wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention, and wherein similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank or strip of material from which the sides, handles and cleats of the body of the cart are constructed;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the different units separated or detached;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the parts assembled to form a cart;

Fig. 4 is a top plan View of Fig. 3.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

In carrying out the method I provide an elongated blank or strip of material 5 having its opposite longitudinal edges 6 dis- Serial No. 252,603.

posed parallel with each other and its end walls 7 straight as shown. At the inter mediate portion of the blank 5 I form spaced transverse incisions 8 extending inwardly from the opposite longitudinal edges 6 of the blank to a point near the center thereof, the distance between the incisions 8 being pref erably approximately twice the width of the blank. The inner end of one transverse incision 8 is connected with the intermediate portion of the other incision by a longitudinal incision 9 disposed obliquely to the longitudinal plane of the blank to form the handle portions 10 of the cart, the outer ends 11 of theblank constituting the side walls of the cart, as best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. Between the incisions 9 I form a plurality of other longitudinal incisions 12, preferably three in number, the material between the incisions 12 when divided along the line 13 constituting the vertical cleats 1d of the cart. Auxiliary incisions 15 are formed in the blank adj acenteach transverse incision 8 and at an angle thereto, as best shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the substantially triangular strips of material 16 in the angles between the incisions 8 and 15, being the only waste material produced in the construction of the body of the cart.

After the blank is cut in this manner and the several units thus formed separated, the lower edges of the handle portions 10 are concaved at 17 to form hand grips, after which the sides 11 are assembled in position on the bottom 18 and secured in spaced relation by a transverse tie member 19. The cleats 14 are then secured to the inner faces of the'side members 11 in spaced relation to form guides for the reception of the front and rear walls 20 and 21, respectively, as best shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. If desired the blank 5 may be of sufficient length to permit the front and rear walls 20 and 21 of the cart to be out directly from the opposite ends of the blank as will be readily understood. By laying off the blank in this manner and subsequently cutting the different units as described, the side walls, handles and cleats may all be cut from a single strip of wood, or other material without appreciable waste of the material, the only material not used in the construction of the body of the cart being that portion in the angles between the incisions 8 and 15 as By making the distance between the. trans "so incisions 8 approxi mately twice the v 5th of the blank 5, when the cl 14: are severed on the line 13, said cleats wiil be coextensive in height with the side walls at the cart so as to properly fit said side walls and obviate the necessity of subsequently cutting or planing the ends of said cleats. it will, oi course, be under-- stood that by varying the length and width oi the blank the length and height oi the cart may be correspondingly Varied.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

l. The herein described method of cutting the sides, handles and cleats ot a vehicle body from a single blank, which consists in forming spaced incisions in the intermediate portion of the blank and extending inwardly from the opposite longitudnal edges thereoi, a nd connecting said transverse incisions by a plurality of longitudinal incisions directed obliquely to the longitudinal plane of said blank.

The herein describel method 01 cutting the sides, handles and cleats of a Vehicle body from a single blank which consists in forming spaced transverse incisions in the iate portion oi the blank and expreviously stated.

i u l orinc tending inwardly from the opposite longitudinal edges thereof. with the distance between said incisions equal to approximately twice the width of the blank, and connecting said transverse incisions by a plurality oi longitudinal incisions directed obliquely to the longitudinal plane oi said blank.

3. The herein described method of cutting the sides, handles and cleats oi? a vehicle body from a single blank which consists in forming transverse incisions of equal length in the blank at opposite sides of the center thereof and extending inwardly from the opposite longitudinal edges of said blank, connecting the inner end of one transverse incision with the intermediate portion of the other incision by longitudinal incisions disposed obliquely to the longitudinal plane of the blank, and forming a plurality oi other longitudinal incisions in the blank between the first mentioned longitudinal incisions and parallel therewith.

l. The herein described method of cutting the sides, handles and cleats of a vehicle body from a single strip of material which consists in providing an elongated blank having its opposite longitudinal edges disposed parallel with each other, forming spaced incisions in the intermediate portion of the blank and extending inwardly from the opposite longitudinal edges thereof, with the distance between the transverse incisions equal to approximately twice the. width of the blank, forming other incisions in the blank at an angle to the transverse incisions, and connecting said other incisions by a plurality of longitudinal incisions directed obliquely to the longitudinal plane oi said blank.

5. The herein described method of forming the units constituting the body of a cart and assembling said units which consists in providing an elongated blank having its opposite longitudinal edges parallel, forming transverse incisions in the intermediate portion of the blank and extending inwardly trointhe opposite longitudinal edges thereof, connecting the inner end of one transverse incision with the intermediate portion oi? the other incision by longitudinal incisions disposed obliquely to the longitudinal plane of the blank to form the sides and handle portions of the cart, forming a plurality of other longitudinal incisions in the blank between the first mentioned longitudinal incisions and parallel therewith, to produce a series of cleats, cutting the cleats intermediate their ends and subsequently separating the units and. assembling them to form the body oi the cart.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature.

DAYTON A. DUSENBERY. n s.]

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